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The book examines the relationships between people, the environment, and property rights and the ways in which a given social and ecological context affects those relationships. The papers are products of a research program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm. The main objective of the program was to convene social scientists and natural scientists to address research questions in their full social and ecological dimensions. The program's participants addressed five general issues related to property rights and the environment: (1) the design of governance systems for sustainability; (2) the relationship between equity, stewardship, and environmental resilience; (3) the use of traditional knowledge in resource management, (4) the mechanisms that link people to their environments, and (5) the role played by population and poverty. The companion volume presents case studies that address questions of design application in those five areas.

"Population is importantly linked to poverty and the erosion of the environmenta; resource base. The population policy literature reflects the current conclusion that previous successes in population policy directed at family planning, the supply side of population growth, cannot be sustained without serious attention to the need to reduce both the demand for births and the momentum of population growth."

Susan Hanna

Susan Hanna is a member of Department of Agriculture and Resource Economics at Oregon State University, USA. 

Mohan Munasinghe

Mohan Munasinghe is a Sri Lankan physicist and economist. With a focus on energy, sustainable development and climate change, he is the Chairman of the Munasinghe Institute for Development, the Director-General of the Sustainable Consumption Institute at the University of Manchester, UK, and the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President of the United States Al Gore.